Ask the parties your questions this election

About Ask Away

Ask Away is a Q & A website where New Zealanders can ask the parties questions in the lead up to the elections. It’s an easy way to find out the parties’ positions on issues, and to compare their views side by side. It’s also a way for you to make your voice heard this election, and get the parties talking about the things that are important to you. The parties are answering the most popular questions each day, so vote for the ones you want answered. You'll see the questions move down the trending list over time, here's more about how that works.

A huge thanks to Meg’s supervisors Karl Kane and Claire Robinson, Open Lab, and the rest of the Design and Democracy team, as well as to the many other people who helped out along the way.

Our friends

Ask Away is one of several youth voter initiatives, take a look at some of the other great resources out there.

On The Fence
is a fun, visual questionnaire that educates and guides you to find a best match from New Zealand's political parties. It's also part of the Design and Democracy Project.

RockEnrol
is a crowd-fuelled & collaborative campaign that uses popular culture, music, events, grassroots community organising & technology to build & activate political power for young people.

Ask Away is a member of the
Virgin Voter Collective,
a non-partisan, nationwide umbrella effort of initiatives working to reverse the decline of young voter participation in NZ. Visit the site and check out all the other members helping you get ready to vote.

What we care about

We believe that everyone should be a part of the political conversation in our country, so we’re making it easy to be involved this election. We want to facilitate connections and conversations between those in power and the people, to help NZ’s politicians be both relevant and responsive. Through this platform, we want to facilitate youth political participation with an end goal of raising voter turnout.